Starmer lays blame for the schools concrete crisis at Sunak’s door

Rishi Sunak didn’t use the same language as Gillian Keegan today when he returned to Prime Minister’s Questions. But he clearly also thinks people should be thanking the government for the good job it is doing.

The session was dominated by the concrete crisis in schools, but Sunak also wanted MPs to give him some credit for the economy recovering and inflation falling. He complained that both Keir Starmer and SNP Westminster leader Stephen Flynn had failed to mention these in their questions, and even rather boldly proclaimed that small boat crossings were down – despite them passing the 100,000 mark this summer and despite the Bibby Stockholm fiasco. 

Starmer wanted to lay the blame for the concrete crisis at Sunak’s door. He also accused the government of being ‘cowboy builders’, claiming that they were doing a good job and demanding people thank them even as children were ‘cowering’ in their crumbling classrooms.